Word: soda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought by Loft, Inc., candymaker and seller. Loft charged that Coca-Cola attempted to interfere with a Loft contract to sell Pepsi-Cola in its stores, threatened to attack the value of Loft stock ($2.50 last week) if the company would not sell Coca-Cola, sent agents to Loft soda fountains to hurt Loft's business by slander and intimidations. Filing a $2,000,000 suit at the same time, making the same charges, was Pepsi-Cola...
James Edward Freeman, 65, had in his youth no intention of going into the church. He was a New York boy, educated in public schools. He jerked soda in a Seventh Avenue drugstore, then went into the Long Island Railroad. He switched at 18 to the New York Central as an office-boy. Years later he returned to a reunion of old New York Central employes. Three of the executives* he recognized as oldtime office-boys and members with him of a church literary society. Office-Boy Freeman became an accountant for the railroad, dabbled in politics...
After a recital Menuhin still asks for a strawberry ice-cream soda, but in Manhattan three years ago he wanted to do something different so his father took him to see his birthplace on University Avenue at 181st Street. He saw the nook under the stairs where his baby-carriage used to stand, the rigging on the firescape where his diapers hung, the grocery next door where a loaf of bread was snatched from his mother's hands because she could not pay immediately...
Wine is fermented, brandy and whiskey are distilled, but vermouth, like tea, is steeped. Italians, Frenchmen, Spaniards drink it straight or dilute it with soda, lemon peel or various fruit juices...
...convincing demonstration of her appeal when, with Funnyman Lou Holtz, she was a principal on the bill which smashed all records by lasting eleven weeks at Manhattan's Palace Theatre, No. 1 vaudeville house in the U. S. Singer Smith is 23 years old, addicted to plain clothes, backgammon, soda fountain drinks, prizefights. Like Caruso, she has small vocal cords, immensely powerful lungs, a jolly disposition...